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Direct linkFeder, Liat; Abu-Rabia, Salim – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
The study tested whether cognitive retroactive transfer (CRT) of language skills from English to Hebrew takes place; specifically, whether an improvement in linguistic and meta-linguistic skills in English as a foreign language (FL) would lead to an improvement in these skills in Hebrew as the first language (L1). The participants consisted of 124…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Transfer of Training, Language Skills, English (Second Language)
Abu-Rabia, Salim; Shakkour, Wael; Siegel, Linda – Bilingual Research Journal, 2013
This study examined the effects of an intervention helping struggling readers improve their reading and writing skills in English as a foreign language (L2), and those same skills in Arabic, which was their first language (L1). Transferring linguistic skills from L2 to L1 is termed "cognitive retroactive transfer". Tests were…
Descriptors: Intervention, Writing Skills, Syntax, Semitic Languages
